"Black
socks and Birkenstocks do not maketh the geek. I
would argue that the essence of geekitude comes from
within. To the true geek, it's not enough that things work. He or she must know
how things work. And beyond that, there is the nagging temptation to make said
things work just a tad bit better than factory spec. This curious and
compulsive fixing of things that are not broken -- that's
true geekitude."